Fringe



(No Model.) I

- J. SINGER.

FRINGE.

Pafinted Mar. 27, 1888. 8

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

" JOSEPH SINGER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Fumes. I

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,141, dated March 2'7, 1888'.

' Application filed March .29, 1887. Serial No. 282.838. (No model.)

Figure 1 is a front view of a piece of fringe 15 embodying my improved features; Fig. 2, a

transverse section in the plane 2, Fig. 1.

The underskirt or web of the fringe A consistsof a series of loose strands of worsted arranged side by side and woven together along the upper edge by the warp-threads a a, thus forming the selvage or head proper. The warp-threads a? form a second or double head. Below the double heading the strands of worsted are divided into bunches, which are 2 5 compressed near their longitudinal center by the tie-bands a leaving the space or opening a. between each two and forming the tassels or pendants b.

The overskirt consists of the cord b, ar-

30 ranged in festoons, and the tassels or pendants b, composed of bunches of worsted doubled over the small loops b in the festooned cord and woven into the undershirt by the warpthreads a, thus saving the time and labor required in attaching them by hand, and also preventing these parts from working laterally out of place relative to the lower fabric. The tassels b are shorter than the companion tassels of the underskirt, and are arranged alternately relative thereto. By this arrangement 40 the parts forming the overskirt cannot change position nor become disarranged, as they are apt to do when simply looped around the festoonedcord, without being .woven into the fabric or groundwork.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A fringe consisting of an underskirt or web terminating in the tassels or pendants bythe 5o festooned cord b, woven into the web by the warp-threads a, and the over tassels or pendants b looped over the cord b and woven to the undershirt by the Warp-threads a, whereby the parts are retained in their proper rela- 55 tive position, substantially as set forth;

- JOSEPH SINGER.

Witnesses:

L. M. FREEMAN, L. B. COUPLAND. 

